Shute Festival will return in 2020. For now, here is 2019's programme to give you a taste of our offering.
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FRIDAY 13th SEPTEMBER
2.00 Landscape Walk led by Graham Jones of Legacy to Landscape; the walk lasts two hours and is free to join
5.00 Anthony Wilson: Reading from his latest books, The Afterlife and Deck Shoes
6.30 Tim Pears: On The Redeemed, the third book in his West Country trilogy
SATURDAY 14th SEPTEMBER
10.00 Nick Jubber: on his latest travel book, Epic Continent
11.30 Jason Webster: on his new book Violencia: A New History of Spain
2.00 David Jones: on ocean sustainability and plastic pollution
3.30 Fiona Benson: reading from her latest collection, Vertigo and Ghost
5.00 Owen Matthews: on his new book, An Impeccable Spy, about Richard Sorge, the Soviet intelligence operative John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies'
6.30 Lisa Clifford: on her new documentary Militia Man about the trial of Germain Katanga accused of war crimes with edited highlights of the film
SUNDAY 15th SEPTEMBER
10.00 Angela Gallop: on her book When The Dogs Don't Bark, which looks at her role as a forensic scientist on some of the UK's most high-profile murder cases
11.30 Isabel Bannerman: on her new book, Scent Magic: Notes from a Gardener
2.00 Free Men: a film about Kenneth Reams, who has been in solitary confinement on death row in Arkansas for 25 years but has fought back through his paintings, poetry and campaign for justice. Kenneth will be calling from his cell after the film to answer questions from the audience.
2.00 Landscape Walk led by Graham Jones of Legacy to Landscape; the walk lasts two hours and is free to join
5.00 Anthony Wilson: Reading from his latest books, The Afterlife and Deck Shoes
6.30 Tim Pears: On The Redeemed, the third book in his West Country trilogy
SATURDAY 14th SEPTEMBER
10.00 Nick Jubber: on his latest travel book, Epic Continent
11.30 Jason Webster: on his new book Violencia: A New History of Spain
2.00 David Jones: on ocean sustainability and plastic pollution
3.30 Fiona Benson: reading from her latest collection, Vertigo and Ghost
5.00 Owen Matthews: on his new book, An Impeccable Spy, about Richard Sorge, the Soviet intelligence operative John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies'
6.30 Lisa Clifford: on her new documentary Militia Man about the trial of Germain Katanga accused of war crimes with edited highlights of the film
SUNDAY 15th SEPTEMBER
10.00 Angela Gallop: on her book When The Dogs Don't Bark, which looks at her role as a forensic scientist on some of the UK's most high-profile murder cases
11.30 Isabel Bannerman: on her new book, Scent Magic: Notes from a Gardener
2.00 Free Men: a film about Kenneth Reams, who has been in solitary confinement on death row in Arkansas for 25 years but has fought back through his paintings, poetry and campaign for justice. Kenneth will be calling from his cell after the film to answer questions from the audience.